A simple experiment to see which shovel or pitchfork is fastest at filling up a wheelbarrow with wood chips. These are all items I've accumulated over the years, so there could definitely be better tools out there.
Headed to grab wood chips this morning so I thought I’d look to see the best tool. Found your video very helpful and you considered much more than I was thinking about. I will be well prepared. Thank you.
Exactly what I was looking for!!! Thank you for doing the test, and timing also... Looking to get chipdrop, and I was looking for info on this exact topic! I did have the forethought to get a mower dump cart, with a 10 cubic foot bed, as I didn't want to haul tons of wood chips manually across the acre, AND it's very helpful taking the trash to down the .6 acre driveway to the cans at the street.
Best tool for hardwood wood chips with some leaves is the 5 tine. Softwood chips the 10 tine is better. I try to get hardwood chips whenever possible for faster soil building. Great video!
@@WestTexasGardenExperiment Literally... just brought one today at Lowe's. Their goin for $42 dollars kind of pricey... but glad I ran across your video, otherwise I would of been using a BIG HEAVY scoop shovel. LoL
Very cool. Yeah, I'd go with a ten pointed fork if I had one. I'll keep that in mind the next time I'm at the shop. I use the tipped over against the pile trick too.
I think the 10-point fork is a good investment if you plan to move a lot of chips in the future. I think they are only about $20 or $30, so definitely worth it in my opinion. Thanks for checking it out.
Last method (tipping the barrow) was the best. Surely, you're the kind of guy who has some sort of jeep or SUV or truck or oh I dunno some sort of car-vehicle (quad bike?) that can have a Power-Take-Off fitted. Then you could totally get the arc-welder out (or series circuit 3 truck car batteries with an arc rod if you have no welder) and weld a jig on it to automate any job you like. As long as you buy the welder replacment lens eye shade, you can make a face replacement mask instead of buy one. Put on an old leather jacket backwards in place of an apron (and wear gloves and mask of course for safety with boots). Or you could make a 4stroke motor out of the compressor from the back of a broken fridge if you have no quadbike or car. As an aside, have you ever programmed (Bash Script, html and PHP with MariaDB, and maybe python3) or owned a raspberrypi3bplus? I recommend getting one and a pizerow. The metalx1000 channel is cool for it. Don't bother with the pi4 IMO. *LandRover is like this* : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DJzz8aU3Ztw.htmlm30s *4stroke motor HowTo* : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Bk4RND5AbRc.html p.s. If you have no pillar drill (aka drill-press), a hand drill can be made into one with a wooden-jig as per the askwoodman yt channel.
Having a machine takes the fun out of it! No, I haven't ever owned a rasberrypi or gotten into that level of programming; I've lived a sheltered life...
I can see you are very knowledgeable about this, and a lot of things. I hope you are getting out there and doing these things at your own place too. If I didn't have my little channel, I probably wouldn't have accomplished much at all out there in the "garden", because it's not as much fun to work on things no one understands. With the channel I can share what I'm doing with others, and people like you are actually interested and offer good feedback. Have you tried talking hugelkultur or permaculture with someone who doesn't have a clue about what that is? Instant deer in the head lights look. Probably the same look I get when I read most of your comments! lol
@@WestTexasGardenExperiment My comment vanished. I think YT has marked a comment of mine as spam again. Many people (not just me) have reported that happening across YT. I'll copy paste it below. Anyway, yeah people do give me that look about hugelkulture. The mongolia desert and Saudi Arabia would be a lush jungle by now if people enthused as much as we do. The hugelkulture I did was on land I don't own but I get to use it. Land is pricey in the UK. I should have a hierarchical beginner-intermediate-advanced system in my comments. I go off on one an have to stop myself (especally computers). I'm a bit of a backseat-driver when I see hugelkultur videos. It's like watching a sports match on TV looking at videos like yours (we're suddenly all experts - lol). There's no way somebody would know that was desert if looking at your garden now. Oh man, I'd plant some massive tree or 3 out in that dry desert just for the biomass to appear. Your channel is a good idea. If I speak to mates about hugelkulture or similar at best they say something boring like about growing a pea in a pot just for the flower (or about having a lawn). Ignore this copy-paste below I have of my old comment (it was still in my buffer from te edit I made eariler). It is simply to replace the auto-deleted one which YT gobbled up. *Old Comment Copy Pasted* : Definitely a good selection of spades and forks! That metalx1000 youtube channel has playlists showing how to write code (look at beginner stuff first of course) which is especially good to do on a raspberrypi3b. You'd be surprised how copy-pasting code can give you good results. You literally can just copy people's code in videos (the good videos) with almost no understanding of what is going on and it can end up working. People build handheld games-consoles from a pi3b called a "retropie". I'm wondering if you have heard of that. There are many videos on it and it is a fun way to get into it. Using a thing you already know about (such as VLC media player or OpenOffice which you might have heard of) on the pi3b is a good way to remove fear of the unknown or daunting vibes. You set them up with software called "noobs" (see YT videos). I would anticipate there is a high probability other commenters here have done something on a raspberrypi such as a pi3b. People use the GPIO pins for sensors to make weather stations in gardens and then have a web-cam _(and I'm sure you can imagine - such as compost temperature via a basic thermocouple etc)._ I absolutely know what it feels like when people explain coding badly and the vast community behind the raspberrypi is a great way to learn because they all make easy youtube videos. OpenOffice (aka LibreOffice) is basically microsoft-office for free and so you can make spreadsheets like excel and write macros (small code equations) in the cells such as a running total on a shopping list. If you ever get into it (no pressure), try that sort of thing because you might find it familiar and VLC-mediaplayer for fun. If, later, you do decide to write code on its own, look at BASH scripting and Python3 _(the latter via Eli-The-Computer-Guy has a good intro video but do follow it up with metalx1000 videos)_ and then basically ignore the PHP and MariaDB thing I mentioned until you are confident _(because basically that is web coding and databases and if you get confused running it, you might get put off and daunted and that would be a pity)_ in python3 and BASH for just coding a running total shopping-list in say a text file with a "file-handler" (geeky word for you there). When people want to learn PHP and MariaDB (aka MySQL) beginners find it easier on MSWindows because they use software known as XAMPP (a bloody brilliant lifesaver easy software for beginners) because they would have written some html4 by then. Not sure if you have ever written any html or even used DOS on an old win98 PC, but if you have, you'll pick up BASH very quickly as it is all simply onscreen text just like old DOS. Man, I've got to stop myself talking about computers. I can feel this comment getting long. LOL! :D
Well, land is cheap here, so you could test out your theories to your heart's content. A bonus is that Americans love British accents. Unless is it that gibberish sounding type that is not easy to understand.
@@WestTexasGardenExperiment If I had a patch of desert land (even including salt-ruined land), I'd make trees grow. I have what you would call a British accent. To Americans, we either sound like the Queen or some manner of pirate. When I was a small child, to an American I'd probably have sounded something like Merry Brandybuck, but nowadays more like Legolas. The former being vaguely in the Pirate category, the latter being the Queen accent category. Either way we're the baddies in movies. I'm still surprised those actors managed to not sound 'evil' to a USA audience. Thankfully the French are deemed snootier, so we can point to them as a distraction.
Yea, it’s a pretty big pile. I get them from free from local arborists. They are happy to get rid of them, since they normally have to pay a lot to unload at the dump.
